Marcus Junius Pera

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Marcus Junius Pera was a Roman politician during the Second Punic War. He was appointed dictator in 216 BC, rei garendae causa, for the purpose of repelling the Carthaginian forces under Hannibal from Italy. He was the only dictator to serve a term simultaneously with another dictator, M. Fabius Buteo being appointed later that year to deal with constitutional matters in Rome.

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• Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, XXII.lvii and XXIII.xxiii.